For one year your best bet would be a 1 year edu visa. It's about $1000 USD for one year at a language school. There is a minimum attendance requirement which is about 10 hours per week for most schools.
You can't get a full year off a tourist visa. With the six month multi entry you would do three cycles of enter -> stay 60 days -> extend for 30 days at immigration -> exit and re-enter again, giving you 9 months total. Whether that's bearable is going to depend on you, it is quite a few days of time commitment and extra cost to do all the entering and exiting. Also bear in mind that every time you do a visa run, there is a possibility that they won't let you re-enter, even with a valid visa.
Getting an extension to your tourist visa entry requires a trip out to immigration at Chaeng Wattana. There's a bit of travel time and some waiting around. It can take anything from a morning to a day and costs about 2k baht.
With a 1 year edu visa all you have to do is report every 90 days which is much easier.
Whether you can get a rental with a tourist visa is going to be up to the individual landlord or rental agent that you're dealing with.
Does the 1000 for education visa include both the visa and the cost classes? I just started looking into this.
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Does the 1000 for education visa include both the visa and the cost classes? I just started looking into this.